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2 In both of your last letters you have requested me to let you know if I was in need of some ready money for household
expenses, while my means were so tied up. Now John I thank you most heartily for your kind thought of me, and I feel that
it is only right that I should let you know how, I have been getting along. Well to begin with, all, belonging to the estate
now, is invested in that Kansas land, and I have not received one cent from it for more, than three years. There was two notes
due us in Fort Winnebago that was not paid up, when John 01489 2. 3 Reid got into trouble, at first I think they amounted
to about two hundred and fifty or sixty dollars, from that source I have received some money, my wood for fires alse the greater
part, of the butter and eggs, I have needed, and potatoes for winter use c Then I have raised some potatoes, and all the vegetables
I could in the garden. Anna and Celia have helped me when it was necessary, Anna more especially as I have also had to borrow
a little from her when I was in need. then a year ago past last summer Joanna and the children came and took rooms that I
could